Robin (Remastered) Lyrics

When I was young and still at home

Summertime was full of bugs and heat

Dad would put us in the car

The factory would shut down for a week

Didn't stop, drove straight through

Sandwiches and Mountain Dew

Racing hard against a silver moon

We got to Aunt Ruby's house

Somewhere on the Colorado plain

They talked about the family and the price of gas

A thing called Watergate

I ran down Cheyenne Street

Tennis shoes on dirty feet

Looking for a place to be alone

She was kicking up the dust around a swing

Neither one said much of anything

But when she told me that her mom was feeling better, then I knew

I felt better too

She said her name was Robin

And I asked her, "Do you mean like a bird?"

I'd almost forgotten how she laughed and said

"That's one I've never heard"

Smelled the grass, on evening wind

She said that she'd best go in

But didn't know where her daddy was

She was kicking up the dust around a swing

Neither one said much of anything

But when she told me that her mom was feeling better, all I knew

I felt better too

I can still recall the streetlight and her laughter in the dark

And we stayed and played till someone said we had to leave the park

Just two lonely kids upon a playground, she and I

Then she was gone, and barely said goodbye

I was kicking up the dust around a swing

Wasn't thinking much of anything

Just hoping that my mom was feeling better, and I knew

I felt better too

She was kicking up the dust around a swing

Neither one said much of anything

But when she told me that her mom was feeling better, all I knew

I felt better too

I felt bettertoo